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...half-century. The oil find could make Brazil one of the world's largest crude producers, but even without that bounty, the economy has been growing as vigorously as a guava tree in the Amazon rain forest, allowing Brazil to start reducing its epic social inequality. Economic strength has also allowed the country to flex its diplomatic clout as the hemisphere's first real counterweight to the U.S. Lula led the creation of a bloc of developing nations, the G-20, to thwart U.S. and European hegemony in global trade talks. "I believe implicitly that Brazil has found...
...mind should now start to claim the spiritual high ground, too.” And in a similar vein: “Our moral advantage, still vast and obvious, is not a liability, and we should strengthen and expand it. Like our dependence on reason, it is a strategic strength.” But what does any of that mean?America has yet to comprehend the power that is Islamism, distinct from Islam. In a battle that is fought as much in the mind as on the ground or in the air, terminology is important, and Islamophobe is still hurled...
...defense yesterday. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers called EdLabs “one of the most important initiatives that Harvard will launch in this decade.” “The quality of education is a hugely important issue for a great university like Harvard whose strength ultimately depends on the quality of the primary and secondary education its students receive,” Summers said yesterday. Summers, who introduced Broad to Fryer, will serve as chairman of EdLabs’ Stakeholder’s Committee. He said that the superintendents of the three cities had already expressed...
...world,” he writes, “it’s no longer how much you know that matters; it’s what you can do with what you know.” Indeed, he asserts that our competitive economic edge and even the strength of our democracy depend on it. However, while Wagner’s book thoroughly examines how standardized tests, aided by an inability to teach beyond them, dampen the intellectual curiosity of American children and thus reinforce the global achievement gap, he only gets at a piece of the problem. By downplaying America?...
...growing strength and the LDP's past failures have some believing that Aso's party could lose a general election outright. "If my guess is right, then Aso will be the prime minister with the shortest time in office," says Axel Klein. He says that in the race against the "uncharismatic" Fukuda last year, Aso showed himself to have a "very difficult character." Says Takao Toshikawa, political analyst and editor of political newsletter Tokyo Insideline: "This controversial general election will be an actual competition...